Jiřina Kynclová Books

The shattering novel about an American Corporal who seeks to dominate both captors and captives in an Japanese prison camp during WWII.

Auf dem Felsen von Parfois soll Burgherr Isambard nicht mehr lange residieren. Als selbst sein Sohn gegen ihn intrigiert, steht ihm ausgerechnet sein Gefangener, der Baumeister Harry Talvace, zur Seite. Zu spät erkennt Isambard, wer seine wahren Freunde sind. Und die Tage der unglücklichen Benedetta sind gezählt. Mit dem dritten Band der großen Mittelalter-Trilogie über den Baumeister Harry Talvace krönt Edith Pargeter das Glanzstück ihres Schaffens und liefert das eindrucksvolle und lebendige Bild einer sagenumwobenen Zeit.

Sbírka reportáží a fejetonů na různá témata z let 1975 až 1996. V publikaci jsou otištěny samizdatové reportáže a fejetony z let 1975-1983, dále jeho příspěvky do vysílání BBC a Svobodné Evropy a do deníku The Independent z let 1983-1990 a rozhlasová a televizní publicistika po návratu do vlasti z let 1990-1996.

Reportáže, fejetony, poznámky a rozhovory z Británie. Karel Kyncl působil jako dlouholetý redaktor BBC, kde získal bohaté znalosti britského prostředí. Tyto zkušenosti zúročil ve svých příspěvcích pro Český rozhlas. Jejich cílem není pouze informovat, nýbrž především zaujmout a pobavit rozhlasové posluchače.

Strávit celý rok ve Věčném městě, to je splněný sen. Jenže život v Římě přináší nejedno překvapení. Místo paláce čeká rodinu obyčejný dům s tuctem bytů, kde neteče teplá voda, nejde proud a všude leží souvislá vrstva prachu. A před sebou mají rok plný typického italského chaosu, ale také dobrosrdečnosti, ochoty pomoci, dobré nálady a…

Marking the thirtieth anniversary of Theophilus North, this beautiful new edition features Wilder's unpublished notes for the novel and other illuminating documentary material, all of which is included in a new Afterword by Tappan Wilder. The last of Wilder's works published during his lifetime, this novel is part autobiographical and part the imagined adventure of his twin brother who died at birth. Setting out to see the world in the summer of 1926, Theophilus North gets as far as Newport, Rhode Island, before his car breaks down. To support himself, Theophilus takes jobs in the elegant mansions along Ocean Drive, just as Wilder himself did in the same decade. Soon the young man finds himself playing the roles of tutor, spy, confidant, lover, friend, and enemy as he becomes entangled in the intrigues of both upstairs and downstairs in a glittering society dominated by leisure. Narrated by the elderly North from a distance of fifty years, Theophilus North is a fascinating commentary on youth and education from the vantage point of age, and deftly displays Wilder's trademark wit juxtaposed with his lively and timeless ruminations on what really matters about life, love, and work at the end of the day -- even after a visit to Newport.

Nach vier Jahren in Bella Italia müssen Stefan Ulrich und seine Familie ihr geliebtes Rom verlassen und samt Meerschweinchen nach Frankreich umziehen. Müssen? Paris, die Stadt der Liebe, das ist doch ein Traum - schmachten die Freunde in Deutschland. Doch die Ulrichs fremdeln erst mal an der Seine. Meer und Berge sind weit weg, beim Einzug platzt ein Wasserrohr, das Schulfranzösisch erweist sich als peinlich unzureichend, und die französischen Nachbarn sind eben keine Italiener. Die Ulrichs aber sind wild entschlossen, ihre neue Heimat lieben zu lernen. Sie erkunden Stadt, Land und Seele der Franzosen und erleben bald, warum Gott tatsächlich in Frankreich lebt.

The bestselling author of Airport and Hotel now tells about the world's richest industry. In Motor City, passionate men and women play a power game fueled by greed, lust, and dreams.

Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.

In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a literary predicament marked by an institutionalised oppression that is rather different from his own. He also discovers, among the subjugated writers with whom he quickly becomes embroiled in a series of bizarre and poignant adventures, an appealingly perverse kind of heroism.The Prague Orgy, consisting of entries from Zuckerman's notebooks recording his sojourn among these outcast artists, completes the trilogy and epilogue Zuckerman Bound. It provides a startling ending to Roth's intricately designed magnum opus on the unforeseen consequences of art.